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Industrial strategy: some people actually find it fun

Alex Frean

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Richard Harrington, the energy minister, went hopelessly, but refreshingly, off script at a nuclear energy conference yesterday, admitting that his constituents “don’t stand around in pubs saying, ‘I really like your industrial strategy, mate’ ”. He did, though, admit that his boss Greg Clark, secretary of state for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, thinks it is very much a grassroots issue and talks about it every evening.

Interest piquedGuy Jubb, the former governance chief at Standard Life, has found a new role — as an independent non-executive director at accountants Mazars. Jubb will sit on the firm’s UK public interest committee. Mazars, it was, that advised on the report into the Royal Bank of Scotland’s GRG scandal. The one the Financial Conduct Authority doesn’t dare…